Slot deployment for static website hosted on storage account

Question

Hi,

We have downloaded the source code of developer Portal in Azure APIM, customized the same and hosted it as a static website on a storage account. We need to support the slot based deployment model for the same so that swapping between staging and production is possible when we execute the deployment pipeline.

Some options that i think would have fit:

• Using Azure Static web app - this is not possible as we would need to change the full deployment model that we already have in
  place.
• Two separate storage accounts, one for stage and one for production, we swap the contents of the $web container in the respective
  storage accounts. Need to look into the cost perspective as in keeping LRS for Stage and RAGRS for the production. Not sure if this is
  the best solution possible.

Please suggest what options i can take.

Thanks,
SuvraJyoti

Answer 1

Hello @suvra jyoti ,
Thanks for your query !
Considering your above scenario , using 2 storage account is the best option as a part of slot based deployment.
When you write data to a RA-GRS storage account, the data is replicated to another Azure region. The geo-replication data transfer charge is for bandwidth used to replicate data to the second Azure region.

As $web container will have block blobs so the total cost of block blob storage depends on:

1) Volume of data stored per month.
2) Quantity and types of operations performed, along with any data transfer costs.
3) Data redundancy option selected.

I am just thinking , how about having stage environment storage account with RAGRS instead of Production storage account ?

Let's say if we consider second parameter i.e. number of operations performed - Once the website is deployed on production as the traffic gets increased which in-turn the operations which indirectly leads to cost.

One more option which I was thinking was "How about having those 2 storage accounts in different regions , Stage - Region1 , Production - Region2 both with LRS kind"

RAGRS is definitely a good option which does an asynchronous replication to the secondary Azure region

I would say take a look at azure calculator https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/storage/blobs/
explore couple of options like "Azure Storage Reserved Capacity" , see the section in the above document.

Also take a look at the section "operations & data transfer prices"

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